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Make your New Jersey healthcare directive.
Tell doctors what care you want and name someone to speak for you if you can't. Legally valid in New Jersey once signed under the New Jersey signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
New Jersey healthcare directive requirements
How it works
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Answer a few questions
About your care preferences and who you want making decisions.
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Download your healthcare directive
A complete, personalized document, formatted for New Jersey.
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Sign and share
Sign in front of 2 adult witnesses, or in front of a notary instead. Not everyone can witness it, so read the witness statement on the document before you choose. Give a copy to your doctor and to any healthcare agent and alternate agent you named.
What governs a New Jersey directive
New Jersey's healthcare-directive statute is at N.J. Stat. §26:2H-53 et seq. Your directive is valid the moment it's signed under your state's witness and notary rules above; it only takes effect if your physician determines you can't make or communicate decisions yourself.
Witness rules for your New Jersey directive
A designated health care representative shall not act as a witness to the execution of an advance directive (N.J.S.A. 26:2H-56). I am not the health care representative or the alternate health care representative named in this Advance Directive.
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